Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.”

— Aristotle

152. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

— Aristotle

153. “The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.”

— Aristotle

154. “Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.”

— Aristotle

155. “There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.”

— Aristotle

156. “There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.”

— Aristotle

157. “He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.”

— Aristotle

158. “God has many names, though He is only one Being.”

— Aristotle

159. “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

— Aristotle

160. “Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .”

— Aristotle

161. “It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”

— Aristotle

162. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

— Aristotle

163. “No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.”

— Aristotle

164. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

— Aristotle

165. “Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

166. “Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.”

— Aristotle

167. “We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

— Aristotle

168. “Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.”

— Aristotle

169. “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action...”

— Aristotle

170. “To love someone is to identify with them.”

— Aristotle

171. “The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”

— Aristotle

172. “Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”

— Aristotle

173. “When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.”

— Aristotle

174. “The soul is the form of the body.”

— Aristotle

175. “He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.”

— Aristotle

176. “Happiness is self-connectedness.”

— Aristotle

177. “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.”

— Aristotle

178. “When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.”

— Aristotle

179. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

— Aristotle

180. “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.”

— Aristotle

181. “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

— Aristotle

182. “The law is reason unaffected by desire.”

— Aristotle

183. “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.”

— Aristotle

184. “Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”

— Aristotle

185. “The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.”

— Aristotle

186. “Change in all things is sweet.”

— Aristotle

187. “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

— Aristotle

188. “All men seek one goal: success or happiness.”

— Aristotle

189. “There is only one good, that is knowledge; there is only one evil, that is ignorance.”

— Aristotle

190. “The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.”

— Aristotle

191. “The secret to humor is surprise.”

— Aristotle

192. “Peace is more difficult than war.”

— Aristotle

193. “The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

194. “Have a definite, clear, practical ideal – a goal, an objective.”

— Aristotle

195. “For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.”

— Aristotle

196. “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

— Aristotle

197. “We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”

— Aristotle

198. “Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden.”

— Aristotle

199. “Yes the truth is that men’s ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

— Aristotle

200. “Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.”

— Aristotle